{"product_id":"the-coal-tattoo-paperback","title":"The Coal Tattoo - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSilas House\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn World War II-era rural Kentucky, twenty-two-year-old Easter and Anneth, her teenaged sister, lose their parents young, so they must raise each other. Easter finds her life in the Pentecostal Holiness church and its music, while Anneth dances and drinks in less-than-holy honky-tonks. Will the differences in their young lives and in their very natures tear them apart or will the bond of the sisters prevail? In lucid prose with an ear for the voice of the sisters' time and place, Silas House brings readers a rich and moving story of coal country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis novel was named The Appalachian Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlair brings this novel into a beautiful new paperback edition, along with two other Silas House novels, \u003ci\u003eClay's Quilt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Parchment of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e. The three novels, which share a common setting and some characters, are companion novels. They may be read individually, in any order, but collectively, they form a rich tableau of life in rural mountain Kentucky in the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilas House is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of six novels, one book of creative nonfiction, and three plays. His writing has appeared frequently in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and has been published in \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGarden and Gun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other places. House is the winner of an E.B. White Award, the Nautilus Award, the Intellectual Freedom Prize from the National Council of Teachers of English, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library\/NAV Foundation, and many other honors, as well as being long listed for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He teaches at Berea College and in the Spalding University School of Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53680204906803,"sku":"9781949467260","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/xuvDWj0Kum9781949467260.webp?v=1784413168","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-coal-tattoo-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}